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| Title |
Why does society accept a higher risk for alcohol than for other voluntary or involuntary risks?
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| Published in |
BMC Medicine, October 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12916-014-0189-z |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Jürgen Rehm, Dirk W Lachenmeier, Robin Room |
| Abstract |
Societies tend to accept much higher risks for voluntary behaviours, those based on individual decisions (for example, to smoke, to consume alcohol, or to ski), than for involuntary exposure such as exposure to risks in soil, drinking water or air. In high-income societies, an acceptable risk to those voluntarily engaging in a risky behaviour seems to be about one death in 1,000 on a lifetime basis. However, drinking more than 20 g pure alcohol per day over an adult lifetime exceeds a threshold of one in 100 deaths, based on a calculation from World Health Organization data of the odds in six European countries of dying from alcohol-attributable causes at different levels of drinking. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 48 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 8 | 17% |
| United Kingdom | 8 | 17% |
| United States | 4 | 8% |
| Australia | 4 | 8% |
| Canada | 3 | 6% |
| Italy | 3 | 6% |
| Mexico | 2 | 4% |
| Argentina | 2 | 4% |
| Estonia | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 2 | 4% |
| Unknown | 11 | 23% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 33 | 69% |
| Scientists | 8 | 17% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 7 | 15% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 92 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 1 | 1% |
| Belgium | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 90 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 17 | 18% |
| Researcher | 16 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 10 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 8% |
| Other | 6 | 7% |
| Other | 13 | 14% |
| Unknown | 23 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 14 | 15% |
| Social Sciences | 12 | 13% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 10 | 11% |
| Psychology | 7 | 8% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 7% |
| Other | 19 | 21% |
| Unknown | 24 | 26% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 130. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 February 2024.
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#321,445
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#266
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#3,106
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#9
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